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by hugosbaseball 1805 days ago
I suspect the FCC regulations around spread spectrum, bitrate, and encryption were more about espionage.

https://hackaday.com/2018/11/26/fcc-gets-complaint-proposed-...

Furthermore, the encryption ban is not specific to ham radio. The guvmin't just wants to be able to listen in, and do so easily.